10 Things to Know for Monday

Monday

Nov 12, 2012 at 7:51 AMNov 12, 2012 at 7:51 AM

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about on Monday:

1. CONGRESS DEMANDS ANSWERS IN PETRAEUS PROBE"We received no advanced notice. It was like a lightning bolt," Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein says of the FBI investigation that led the CIA chief to quit over an extramarital affair.

2. WHO EARNED AMERICA'S GRATITUDEPresident Obama tells veterans that the nation must commit every day "to serving you as well as you've served us."

3. WHERE FRUSTRATIONS SIMMER AMID ONGOING OUTAGELong Islanders rail against a utility that has lagged behind others in restoring electricity, two weeks after Superstorm Sandy.

4. NO ROOM AT THE INNS... OR THE RENTALS EITHERThousands of New Jersey residents displaced by Superstorm Sandy are frantically calling real estate offices, looking to rent homes or apartments while they figure out what to do about their storm-ravaged dwellings.

5. WHAT SHOOK AN ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOODInvestigators haven't ruled out any possible causes of a blast killed 2 and damaged up to 31 homes in Indianapolis.

7. HOW THE BBC IS DEALING WITH ITS SCANDALThe head of the broadcaster's governing body is calling for a "thorough, radical structural overhaul" after the bungling of reports that powerful Britons sexually abused children.

9. T.S. ELIOT'S WIDOW, WHO GREENLIGHTED `CATS,' DIES AT 86Valerie Eliot refused to cooperate with biographers but welcomed the unlikely, and lucrative, idea of a musical based on the poet's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats."

10. EAGLES GO INTO A TAILSPINPhiladelphia drops its fifth-straight game and quarterback Michael Vick suffers a concussion in a 38-23 loss to the Cowboys.